# I've changed my mind about George W. Bush

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 19, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313 "2017-10-19T19:10:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313/61 "2017-10-21T22:49:14Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> While I agree that a lot of bank execs and such should have gone to jail, freezing the economy and tossing even more people out of work to teach the banks a lesson was not really a good solution. It could have been a lot worse.

Not talking about individuals.

Who told you that was the only other option - Poulson and the corporate media It’s not as if they had reason to con you again …

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313/62 "2017-10-22T00:47:47Z")

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> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> A neo nazi with swastika tattoos and fetal alcohol syndrome who promises to use the presidential pardon on anyone who murders a liberal in the streets and who openly talks about the need to eliminate elections since they empower leftists.
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> 1. I called it.

Everything except pardoning murderers sound plausible, murder not being a federal offence.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313/63 "2017-10-22T01:05:41Z")

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> [@AK84](#):
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> Americans ask yourself, if you could trade Trump for W, would you?

I’ve thought about this, and…I don’t know. Trump has more potential to do bad stuff, but in his first nine months Bush actually _did_ more bad stuff.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313/64 "2017-10-22T01:07:58Z")

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> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#):
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> Everything except pardoning murderers sound plausible, murder not being a federal offence.

Aren’t there more than one federal murder laws?

\<looking it up/\>

[I think this is one.](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111)

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**Author:** ![LongTimeLurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@LongTimeLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LongTimeLurker)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-changed-my-mind-about-george-w-bush/799313/65 "2017-10-22T02:26:44Z")

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> [@up\_the\_junction](#):
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> You have GOT to be joking!
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> He handed the democracy to the exact same incompetent, blinded by greed people who caused the crisis, immunised them from responsibility and required the tax payer to under right that incompetence.
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> Congress and the public were conned and conned again - a beautiful sting.

So under righting is a bad thing?

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